My experience as a foreign correspondent throughout the Middle East places me uniquely to understand the ‘Arab Spring’ freedom movement sweeping the region. ‘Damascus Trance’ is an original short story about the violent current events in the Syrian capital. In this podcast I read the story in full and explain why my fictional response to current affairs is a better way to understand what’s happening in Arab countries than journalism.

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Matt's gritty award-winning crime quartet about Palestinian sleuth Omar Yussef set against the noir backdrop of the intifada. Read a free Omar Yussef short story about the "Arab Spring" set in riot-torn Damascus.